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Direct linkDromsky, Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Summarizing text is one of the most effective comprehension strategies (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000) and an effective way to learn from information text (Dole, Duffy, Roehler, & Pearson, 1991; Pressley & Woloshyn, 1995). In addition, much research supports the explicit instruction of such strategies as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
Differential Competencies Contributing to Children's Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Texts
Peer reviewedBest, Rachel M.; Floyd, Randy G.; Mcnamara, Danielle S. – Reading Psychology, 2008
This study examined the influences of reading decoding skills and world knowledge on third graders' comprehension of narrative and expository texts. Children read a narrative text and an expository text. Comprehension of each text was assessed with a free recall prompt, three cued recall prompts, and 12 multiple-choice questions. Tests from the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Grade 3, Reader Text Relationship
